[WIP] Presidio

Yes, there is a complex caves system that comunicates 3 exterior sides with church's inside, creating an alternative flow inside-outside. Hope can be seen here:

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Think I'm the first doing such complex one single mesh map in source engine. There are nodraws to hide visibility, but thats fast compile.

Do you see the rock texture in the close view smooth and unrock-like? Hmm, How hard you are Maybe I'm gonna try to model a normal map in XSI, but doubt result would be much better than that, because that kind of bumps reinforce texture tiling.

There was 2 caves shots at the beginning, a few more:

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Not finished with displacements there, and need to add a few props too.

I'd like to try another kind of lights, but that's the old west, can't think in other light source than torches or similar there.

In the near future I want to going further in the caves theme, my next SP mod will have more caves, natural and man made. One thing I want to try is direct sun light coming from top, that is going to look good.

Yes, I'd wish to add more decorative elements there, but also wish to preserve it as a natural cave. It's not a mine, so no rails or wood beams. Mi idea is to model some kind of rock details, and place a few props, like barrels and crates, the best friends of a map Well, need to elaborate that a bit more, but it's a natural cave.

Ah, and I'm modeling a simple cobweb to place it inside some buildings, I'll add a few inside the cave.

Tried with another normal map, this makes a better job:

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Think the old one was killing a bit the texture. Used no compression on this one because normal map compresión really sucks (except non standard ATI 3dc).

I'll try to make better cliffs and caves, but is really hard to get enough quality and art required on every zone, because this is no a "village map", "church map", "caves map" or "outdoor map", it's all in one. I'm working on this almost 3 months now, but I'm learning a lot too.